bjørn – Norwegian Nynorsk noun declension

Norwegian Nynorsk noun forms of bjørn

Noun: bjørn
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.bjørn
Pl.bjørnar

Definite

Sg.bjørnen
Pl.bjørnane

Sample Sentences

  • Bjørnen med sin lodne Feld kann deg taka seint um Kveld. (The bear, with its furry coat, might catch you late at night.) [1860 April 8, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, “Gjeiti”, in Dølen, volume II, number 25, page 2:]

Nouns inflected like bjørn

bernhardin, billettautomat, røykdukkar, krøpling, symbal, synops, synsar, syklon, syklus, swazilendar, kroppsdel, snøbre, serbar, server, sesjon, sesong, septim, setjar, settar, sefard, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Norse bjǫrn, from Proto-Germanic *bernuz, northern form of Proto-Germanic *berô, probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“brown, shining”), maybe related to brun (“brown”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'bjǫrn'.

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